Towards a framework for design guidelines for young children's computer games

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3166, Issue , 2004, Pages 365-376

  Barendregt, Wolmet ^a   Bekker, Mathilde M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN;

GENERAL DESIGNS; USER TESTS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 35048815140     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-28643-1_47     Document Type: Article

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